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Critical Essays on William Faulkner (Paperback)
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Critical Essays on William Faulkner compiles scholarship by noted
Faulkner studies scholar Robert W. Hamblin. Ranging from 1980 to
2020, the twenty-one essays present a variety of approaches to
Faulkner's work. While acknowledging Faulkner as the quintessential
southern writer-particularly in his treatment of race-the essays
examine his work in relation to American and even international
contexts. The volume includes discussions of Faulkner's techniques
and the psychological underpinnings of both the origin and the form
of his art; explores how his writing is a means of "saying 'no' to
death"; examines the intertextual linkages of his fiction with that
of other writers like Shakespeare, Twain, Steinbeck, Warren, and
Salinger; treats Faulkner's use of myth and his fondness for the
initiation motif; and argues that Faulkner's film work in Hollywood
is much better and of far greater value than most scholars have
acknowledged. Taken as a whole, Hamblin's essays suggest that
Faulkner's overarching themes relate to time and consequent change.
The history of Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha stretches from the arrival
of the white settlers on the Mississippi frontier in the early
1800s to the beginnings of the civil rights movement in the 1940s.
Caught in this world of continual change that produces a great
degree of uncertainty and ambivalence, the Faulkner character (and
reader) must weigh the traditions of the past with the demands of
the present and the future. As Faulkner acknowledges, this process
of discovery and growth is a difficult and sometimes painful one;
yet, as Hamblin attests, to engage in that quest is to realize the
very essence of what it means to be human.
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